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Sep. 27th, 2013 11:55 pm
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As may or may not have been apparent from last night's post, I was watching a Silent Hill 2 LP (voiced this time, although he was listenable to, so...no bad thing. I'm taking a break from him now and being non-chronological and now watching Origins. ANYWAY).

I finished watching it earlier this evening.

OMG MY FEELS.

(Yes, I am aware that is an annoying phrase, but I can't think of any other way to articulate myself. Sorry).

Also here is a spoiler or two? )

I've been doodling the last two days (goddamnit, I wish my scanner worked. I'll have to figure out a good camera set up). I tried to draw Cheryl > I failed. Tried to draw Alessa > failed. Tried to draw Maria > success (W.T.F. how did that even happen? Also: note to self: cartooning works best for you. Please stop forgetting that). Granted, she has a stupid expression on her face but eh. It's a viable(ish) picture! I ain't going to complain! (much)

~*~

P.S. I've given up on Night Vale. I've really had no desire to listen to it since I last posted about it and I don't really find it that exciting or interesting. As I said to, I think, [personal profile] chibichan, my brain kind of runs on Night Vale, and people trying to make out that's a new and exciting thing that's never been done before is just not doing it for me.

On the other hand, I've got all the episodes so far, so there's a chance I might return to it, but I doubt it.

(Still following their twitter, though, as non-contextual tweets are fairly hilarious).
I listened to seven episodes of Welcome to Night Vale yesterday, more or less in row, so I think I'm qualified to talk about it a little bit, and at least explain wtf it is.

It is a podcast in the guise of a community radio transmission. Night Vale is a small town/city in one of the desert states in America (I know in the US the word city doesn't necessarily mean it's a great sprawling mass, and I assume the word is used in this sense here, although who the hell knows. It's not important). It is a place where strange things happen. All the freaking time. But it's just daily life for the people who live there.

The creators describe it as a place where all conspiracy theories are true. And this is accurate, although not all the stuff they use would be classified as one, but that's the general gist.

People on the internet seem to describe it as Lovecraft meets Lake Wobegone. Two things here: 1. My knowledge of Lovecraft is sparse, but I'd expect more shadowy figures/dark rituals/tentacles. 2. I don't know Lake Wobegone, so I don't get that reference. In fact, all I've picked up about it is that it's narrated by Garrison Keillor, and I only know him as the voice of UK Toyota ads from a few years ago. So I don't understand this description, or why it keeps coming up.

My general opinion is that it's OK. It makes me laugh in places, but I don't think it's the best thing since sliced bread. I also don't hate it, either. It's good to have on in the background while you're doing other stuff, which I think is part of the intention. I also like the proverbs at the end.

The narrator - Cecil - doesn't have the most wonderful voice (he describes it as smooth and sonorous at one point, and I'm inclined to disagree on both points). That's not to say you can't listen to him. I've heard worse voices than his. In fact, I started following Night Vale's twitter (which I think I may have done even if I didn't like the show, because the out of context tweets amuse me), and now I hear all the tweets in his voice in my head.

I found the first episode a bit of a drag, but it improves after that. (Each episode is between 20 and 25 minutes long, by the way).

I think you would like it if you like weird things? Like the X-Files, and maybe Twin Peaks (I haven't seen that, so I can't say for sure, but from what I know about the series?) Or if you're just interested in unexplained phenomena (but not to the point where you believe it to be real). (Also that doesn't describe it adequately, either, because there's some stuff - like a dragon - that is obviously from myths/stories).

This is the official website, and I downloaded the podcasts from here, although if you check out the main page, it gives you a variety of sources to download from.

P.S. Do Americans always pronounce Cecil as "see-sil"? Because I knew it happened, and that's the first time I actually heard it and...yeah...

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Sep. 15th, 2013 11:34 am
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I'm about to attempt to listen to Welcome to Night Vale.

I say "attempt" because of two reasons: I've seen what the internet has to say about it and I'm very picky about voices*.

Once I finally found out what it was (because the internet needs a button that says "YES BUT WHAT IS IT?" so I can press it during contextless encounters), I decided I wasn't going to listen because it would not be as good as the internet said. Also I've never listened to a podcast in my whole damn life.

(Look, I'm old and crotchety. Podcasting is new-fangled to me, OK?)

Then I looked on TVT (THAT PLACE, OMFG). And...I thought it sounded interesting. It had "YOU WILL LIKE THIS" written all over it. DAMNIT.

I also liked that they described podcasts as radio on the internet, because that is essentially what it is, and why didn't I realise that sooner????

So I'm biting the bullet, OK. But I reserve the right to not like it, find it highly irritating, or think the narrator sounds like someone is squeezing his balls constantly.

But also, I have a question! What other podcasts do you recommend?

I want to listen to Kevin and Ursula Eat Cheap, but I've been wavering on downloading/listening to that for as long as Ursula and Kevin have been doing it. But that's the only other one. Otherwise the world of podcasting is a weird, strange ocean, and I don't know how to navigate it**.


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*This is why video Let's Plays don't always work for me. If I can't listen to the narrator's voice, I'm not watching that video, even if it's for a game I love to pieces.

**Which is not to say I haven't thought about doing my own but a) who wants to listen to my voice, b) my microphone is crappy, and c) what on earth would I talk about??????

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